Storypath

This week in Social Studies class we did an awesome activity with Mt Everest.  On Monday we learn all about Mt. Everest, which I thought was very interesting.  I had never been interesting in climbing and learning about the process of climbing a mountain until Mrs. Meier's shared some very interesting facts with us about Mt. Everest.  I find it so fascinating that people have climbed this mountain numerous times.  For example, the Sherpa's live at Mt. Everest and help people like me climb the mountain.  Below is some beautiful pictures of Mt. Everest that I found.

On Wednesday in class, we continued learning about Mt. Everest by doing a storypath.  I found this excellent  definition on storypath on   http://fac-staff.seattleu.edu/mmcguire/web/. 

Storypath offers both a structure for organizing the social studies curriculum and an instructional strategy for teaching. The structure is a familiar one: the story. The strategy is grounded in a belief that children learn best when they are active participants in their own learning, and places students’ own efforts to understand at the center of the educational enterprise. Together, the structure and the teaching strategy ensure that students feel strongly motivated and have meaningful and memorable learning experiences.

When doing a storypath, you have to make sure the students know the background of the subject/topic.  So on Monday in class, Mrs. Meier's gave the class all the knowledge that we needed to know to make our storypath.  I found this activity fun, because you get to put yourself into the shoes of someone else for a little while.  Below is the final result of the storypath that we did.

I definitely plan on incorporating storypath into my class one day!!!